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Studies A-Z > D > DRN 239 Let's Prevent
A community-based primary prevention programme for Type 2 Diabetes integrating identification, lifestyle intervention and community services for prevention (RCT)
Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance are increasingly appearing in younger people, with a recent increase in the under-30s. Before the onset of diabetes, most people will have some degree of abnormal glucose tolerance. The most efficient way to address the problem of diabetes and its complications is to prevent diabetes from developing.
Research on patients with impaired glucose tolerance has shown that prevention is possible, particularly using lifestyle modification interventions. However, delivering those interventions is key; ideally such interventions should be delivered in primary care
Let’s Prevent aims to implement and evaluate a lifestyle modification intervention that is cost-effective and culturally sensitive, using the DESMOND programme as a framework.
The study is running in Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northampton.
There are now 31 practices across Leicestershire and Rutland participating in Let’s Prevent, four who are considering it and a further four who have expressed an interest in participating.
The study team has completed the data screening (identifying individuals from the practice list) and mailings at 19 practices and 7,205 letters had been sent out by the end of January 2010.
As of the end of January, 1021 people had attended the screening clinic and of those, 242 have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes.